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I love winter desserts they are full of spicy flavour, nuts, dry fruits, dark sugars!!!
Lets talk about all the varieties that you can get of apples, pears and citrus... also in some restaurants you find tropical desserts maybe to remind you about summer or maybe because now you can find all ingredients all year around.
Nature has been wise to give us what we need at the right time of the year. Like winter we have all sort of citrus fruit like oranges, clementines, mandarins full of vitamin C that will protect our immune system for winter. Strudel is an Austrian (mainly) dessert made of a fine layered pastry. Instead of making the strudel pastry you can buy puff pastry, this going to make it very easy to prepare and very tasty. This recipe that I present you is a quick and a modern version, perfect for Christmas parties.
Puff pastry (already made)
Start by peeling the apples, remove the core of the apple and chop them roughly same size.
Puff Pastry:
Over baking paper or baking mat place the base and add the apple compote in the middle as a filling leave about 2 cm of free pastry in each side to stick the top, but feel free to add a good layer of filling (can go up to 4 cm hight). To make the glue that is going to stick the bottom and top together we need to make and egg wash, break the egg and add the tablespoon of milk, whisk it, add a pinch of salt and a pinch of sugar.
Nature has been wise to give us what we need at the right time of the year. Like winter we have all sort of citrus fruit like oranges, clementines, mandarins full of vitamin C that will protect our immune system for winter. Strudel is an Austrian (mainly) dessert made of a fine layered pastry. Instead of making the strudel pastry you can buy puff pastry, this going to make it very easy to prepare and very tasty. This recipe that I present you is a quick and a modern version, perfect for Christmas parties.
Puff pastry (already made)
1 egg
1 tbsp of milk
Caster sugar to sprinkle
Apple and Vanilla Compote:
4 braeburn apples or green apples
120 g sugar
30 g butter
1 Vanilla pod
120 ml water
Start by peeling the apples, remove the core of the apple and chop them roughly same size.
Split in half the vanilla pod, scrap off the seeds and mix them with the rest of ingredients including the apples, in a big pan or casserole.
Cook them at low heat until the apples have no bite, but they still have shape. Cool it down.
Puff Pastry:
Flour the surface to roll the puff pastry. Roll it about 2 mm thin, you need to rectangles one is going to be the base (13 cm x 20 cm), the top (16 cm x 22 cm). Get ready the tray that you are going to be baking the strudel, make sure this tray fits in the fridge, or also you can use a cutting board where you can cool it down in the fridge; is important to use baking paper to build this dish.
Over baking paper or baking mat place the base and add the apple compote in the middle as a filling leave about 2 cm of free pastry in each side to stick the top, but feel free to add a good layer of filling (can go up to 4 cm hight). To make the glue that is going to stick the bottom and top together we need to make and egg wash, break the egg and add the tablespoon of milk, whisk it, add a pinch of salt and a pinch of sugar.
Brush around the free space a thin layer of egg wash and place the top gently press down to make sure there is no air inside and the top and bottom are sealed. With a fork press gently at the edge, trying to not to press too hard to break the dough, just enough to mark it; at this point you need to cool it down in the fridge, let it rest for one hour.
To Bake:
180 °C until golden brown
yummy!!!!
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